Principal Advisor – Digital Asset Management

Principal Advisor – Digital Asset Management

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Start your career with Rio Tinto today! 

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Principal Advisor – Digital Asset Management who will lead programs of work to improve the performance of our assets by advancing digitization and condition monitoring for our broad asset base across the globe. This role will develop and implement processes, technologies and connect people to ensure a consistent and structured approach to our Smart Plant programme. 

This role is a great opportunity to join a truly global mining organization and support the development and implementation of our Smart Plant programme by performing the following activities: 

• Support the development of the vision and architecture for the Smart Plant programme – What it means, how will it work, and its benefits, including change management required in technology, processes, and people;
• Engage with external providers and stress test the vision and plans;
• Develop and implement a proof-of-concept (POC) pilot project on a critical asset type to test and fine-tune the plan in a small scale implementation;
• Understand and document the current landscape of condition monitoring, process historians, maintenance, lubrication, reliability, inspections, and other data and tools in the Group;
• Facilitate the generation of business value and drive better AM decision making with the application of Artificial Intelligence technologies
• Enable the creation of Asset Health reports with standard taxonomies for Health Status, Fault Types, Remedial Actions, and others to facilitate supervised learning by machine learning and AI approaches;
• Automate workflows to improve productivity, safety and reduce cost;
• Support the creation of insights and reports to assist our sites decision-making process and quantify past and current performance;
• Enable Operate for Reliability (O4R) by integrating maintenance and operational data and producing advisories to operators and process control systems.

What you’ll bringTo succeed in this role, you will have:

• BE or BEng in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• Experience and understanding in implementing online condition monitoring technologies and IIOT sensors and devices deployment
• Understanding of data messaging protocols such as MQTT, OPC-UA, Modbus, Profibus, others
• Experience in maintenance and reliability management and metrics
• Experience in the use of CMMS such as SAP/PM to create reports, work notifications, other common transactions, and data integration and consumption
• Basic SCADA/OSIPI and PLC data integration and programming
• Significant experience >2 years in the Oil and Gas / Petrochemical sector or MAE Processing facilities.
• Project Management/Lead Engineering experience
• Travel domestically and internationally when site visits are necessary
• Desired Knowledge in:

• Software programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, HTML, SQL, Python, R.)
• Cloud services such as Azure and Amazon Web Services
• Data analytics
• Data integration
• Data lake
• Structured and unstructured data
• Machine learning algorithms and solutions

Other Required Skills:

• Strong communication skills leading to strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Capability to facilitate workshops and present results to stakeholders
• Capability to provide training and coaching
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products

Personal Qualities:

• Working as part of a team or individually, with a positive, flexible attitude
• Able to combine theoretical knowledge and practical skills
• High degree of adaptability and flexibility
• Eager to learn and develop yourself
• Motivated, ambitious, and highly committed to project delivery
• High professional integrity

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking, and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Company provided insurance cover
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers –generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium –the world’s first to be certified “responsible” –helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you’ll be working

The Rio Tinto Copper group is a global organisation with operations in the U.S. (Kennecott Utah Copper, “RTKC”, and Resolution), Mongolia (Oyu Tolgoi), Africa (Simandu) and Western Australia (Winu Cu-Au project). The portfolio also includes interests in a non-managed joint venture in Chile, in addition to exploration & evaluation interests and other minor investments. 

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

Applications close on Friday, 17^th June 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)